For various reasons, I replaced the 1 TB NVME Optane drive in my laptop with a normal 1 TB NVME (no optane drive) and laptop works great.
I put the optane nvme in a usb enclosure and it is seen ok, but when I copy to it (large or small files), I was getting write speeds of only around 80-100 MB/s on a usb 3.1 port, and often dropping as low as 20 MB/s.
The nvme drive now in laptop was in same usb enclosure and used to blitz along at writing of 500-600 MB/s.
I have just bought a new 1TB nvme (non optane drive) and put that in the enclosure - BOOM - write speeds back up to 500-600 MB/s!
My laptop does not have AHCI mode (no SATA slots). The internal NVMEs need IRST drivers.
When the optane drive was internal, it operated at typical nvme speeds - put it in a caddy and it is worse than a hard drive!
So my optane drive usb drive is only going to be used as for data backup syncing key folders where speed is not important (although it will take ages to do initial data transfer to it).
What I did notice is the optane drive runs very hot >75C when transferring data to it compared with <60 C for normal nvme drives.
I am not really looking for advice as I have replaced the drive, but I would be interested in other user experiences with optane nvme drives in a usb caddy?
I put the optane nvme in a usb enclosure and it is seen ok, but when I copy to it (large or small files), I was getting write speeds of only around 80-100 MB/s on a usb 3.1 port, and often dropping as low as 20 MB/s.
The nvme drive now in laptop was in same usb enclosure and used to blitz along at writing of 500-600 MB/s.
I have just bought a new 1TB nvme (non optane drive) and put that in the enclosure - BOOM - write speeds back up to 500-600 MB/s!
My laptop does not have AHCI mode (no SATA slots). The internal NVMEs need IRST drivers.
When the optane drive was internal, it operated at typical nvme speeds - put it in a caddy and it is worse than a hard drive!
So my optane drive usb drive is only going to be used as for data backup syncing key folders where speed is not important (although it will take ages to do initial data transfer to it).
What I did notice is the optane drive runs very hot >75C when transferring data to it compared with <60 C for normal nvme drives.
I am not really looking for advice as I have replaced the drive, but I would be interested in other user experiences with optane nvme drives in a usb caddy?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 10 Pro + others in VHDs
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS Vivobook 14
- CPU
- I7
- Motherboard
- Yep, Laptop has one.
- Memory
- 16 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Integrated Intel Iris XE
- Sound Card
- Realtek built in
- Monitor(s) Displays
- N/A
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB Optane NVME SSD, 1 TB NVME SSD
- PSU
- Yep, got one
- Case
- Yep, got one
- Cooling
- Stella Artois
- Keyboard
- Built in
- Mouse
- Bluetooth , wired
- Internet Speed
- 72 Mb/s :-(
- Browser
- Edge mostly
- Antivirus
- Defender
- Other Info
- TPM 2.0